Definition of levant

• a. - Rising or having risen from rest; -- said of cattle. See Couchant and levant, under Couchant.
• n. - The countries washed by the eastern part of the Mediterranean and its contiguous waters.
• n. - A levanter (the wind so called).
• a. - Eastern.
• v. i. - To run away from one's debts; to decamp.